by Chris Hunt | November 1, 2017 | Fishing, Fly tying
Being a western angler, I’m not terribly familiar with the steelhead flies used in Great Lakes tributaries. Most western steelhead patterns are purple or pink or some color variation that just looks loud and gawdy. Higher up in the steelhead drainages, like here in Idaho, it’s easier to get awa y from the “eggy” and…
Contacts: Judith Kohler, National Wildlife Federation, kohlerj@nwf.org, 720-315-0855 Randy Scholfield, Trout Unlimited, rscholfield@tu.org, 720-375-3961 Kristyn Brady, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, kbrady@trcp.org, 617-501-6352 Sportsmen call on Interior to protect fish and wildlife habitat on public lands Urge clear planning guidelines for energy development WASHINGTON (Friday, Oct. 27, 2017) As the Interior Department focuses on streamlining energy…
Director and producer Robert Redford eyes a shot during filming of “A River Runs Through It”. Courtesy photo. By Brett Prettyman While most people talk about Brad Pitt’s shadow casting and the family drama the troubled soul Paul brought to his clan, I have different memories of “A River Runs Through It.” Like so many…
by Chris Hunt | October 24, 2017 | Video spotlight
I’ve been missing my little girl lately—she’s off on her own adventures now after graduating from high school last spring. But we had some adventures in years past, and this past summer, we met on a little creek high in Idaho’s Caribou National Forest for some fishing. The two of us have always had a…
by Chris Hunt | October 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Some of America’s wildest lands should staty that way if a legal decision last month in Washington has any staying power. The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia threw out the state of Alaska’s last-ditch effort to undermine the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects some 50 million acres of public lands, including Alaska’s…
by Chris Hunt | October 20, 2017 | Video spotlight
We’ve all done some questionable things for fish. We’ve toted float-tubes into the backcountry on the word of a Google maps photo, only the find the “lake” choked with lily pads and all of three feet deep. We’ve wandered up blue line in the Gazeteer only to realize, after too many miles to turn back,…
by Chris Hunt There’s a great little run on the South Fork of the Snake that’s only wadable when water managers lower the river in the fall, after harvest is all but done and the demand for downstream water subsides a bit. During high summer, with the river literally the potential energy for Snake River…